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With a driver, your life is in the hands of someone who has nothing to gain from getting in a car crash. With a cleaner, your possessions are in the hands of so

• JoeAltmaier 11y ago
  This casual assumption that all housekeepers are thieves is galling. Its a kind of working-class bigotry that is tossed around by the entitled without even noticing they are doing it. Of course folks have plenty of incentive to not steal - they have self-respect.
  • philh 11y ago
    You seem to be replying to a comment which has very little in common with the one I wrote.
    • JoeAltmaier 11y ago
      Huh. The Uber driver could rob you too; they could rape or murder. They could kidnap. They have, really, far more opportunities to harm you. But the ol' housekeeper is alone in getting assumed to be a thief. Probably this was not meant. But its been a hot button, the casual assumption that housekeepers are thieves, since forever. I guess I read that into the comment too readily.
      • EdiX 11y ago
        Yes, the Uber driver could rob you or worse, but they would also be guaranteed to get caught, so they probably won't do it. I think you are picking on a rather objective and dispassionate observation about incentives to take a grandstanding against classism, I appreciate the sentiment but the execution is flawed.
        • zurn 11y ago
          Modeling the behaviour of personal assailants from the POV of their rational risk-reward expectations does not match reality very well. They are largely people who are not in control of their impulses.
          • EdiX 11y ago
            My impression is that it does for crimes committed against people the assailant is not related with.
        • JoeAltmaier 11y ago
          Guilty as charged. But those cold dispassionate observations can inject casual bias as well as heated comments. That was what was galling. The 'oh you know how the domestic help is always stealing stuff' injected casually was more than my bs-meter could handle.
          • jpatokal 11y ago
            ...except that your strawman there isn't even close to what philh actually said.
            • JoeAltmaier 11y ago
              "With a cleaner, your possessions are in the hands of someone who might have plenty of incentive to steal your stuff and sell it. " Did we read the same post?
              • philh 11y ago
                I said that a cleaner might have incentive to steal. You've turned this into "all housekeepers are thieves" and "the domestic help is always stealing stuff". That's not what I said, it's not what I meant, and it's not what I think.
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  • zzalpha 11y ago
    Not to mention, they want more business. A cleaner who steals doesn't work for long. The business is heavily driven by referrals and references.
  • rhino369 11y ago
    Almost all maids won't steal, but it's a great cover for thieves who want access to houses. You can't know which is which unless you get a good recommendation or hire the person and test it out.
  • nommm-nommm 11y ago
    Its the other way around. The vast majority of housekeepers are not thieves however thieves pose as housekeepers very easily. Thieves (and other criminals) pose as all kinds of different occupations. Almost no actual landlord will take your security deposit and run but there's plenty of people on Craigslist posing as landlords to do just that. So the moral of the story is try not to be taken in by a scam.
• pbhjpbhj 11y ago
  Have a bit of imagination, there's got to be plenty of ways for a driver to exploit you being in their car for criminal profit too. Provide wifi and slurp data; kidnap you; notify an accomplice that you've left the house empty and it's ripe for burglary; clone a payment card (and/or steal a pin) when you pay; take your DNA to plant at a crime scene for blackmail purposes ... erm, what else, clearly I'm not nefarious enough ...
  • CamperBob2 11y ago
    If this sort of thing were common, I'd hear about it. On the other hand, home burglaries are so common they don't even make the local news.